samba - Sep 2004 - Re: Just a quick suggestion for backup solution, plea se???

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Tauno Williams [mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org]
> If you have ACL support enabled on you Samba server make sure your
> backup solution supports backing up meta-data and extended 
> attributes. 
> 99 of out 100 do NOT.
The latest version of NovaNET (http://www.novastor.com/) claims in the
release notes to support ACLs.  I haven't put this to the test yet, though.
(I use default ACLs extensively so unless I was restoring a whole tree,
files tended to get the right ACLs automagically even under the old
version.)

I've been reasonably happy with NovaNET, except for some database corruption
issues that seem to have been fixed in the latest version.  It's a good
solution if you need to back up Windows or NetWare systems as well as Linux.
It's not free, however, so if all you need to do is back up Linux there may
be a cheaper solution.

Hi, as far i know tar supports acls

p Restore the named files to their original modes, and ACLs if 
applicable, ignoring the present umask. This is the default behavior if 
invoked as super-user with the x function letter specified. If 
super-user, SETUID and sticky information are also extracted, and files 
are restored with their original owners and permissions, rather than 
owned by root. When this function modifier is used with the c function, 
ACLs are created in the tarfile along with other information. Errors 
will occur when a tarfile with ACLs is extracted by
previous versions of tar .

Regards

David Brodbeck schrieb:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Adam Tauno Williams [mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org]
> 
> 
>>If you have ACL support enabled on you Samba server make sure your
>>backup solution supports backing up meta-data and extended 
>>attributes. 
>>99 of out 100 do NOT.
> 
> 
> The latest version of NovaNET (http://www.novastor.com/) claims in the
> release notes to support ACLs.  I haven't put this to the test yet,
though.
> (I use default ACLs extensively so unless I was restoring a whole tree,
> files tended to get the right ACLs automagically even under the old
> version.)
> 
> I've been reasonably happy with NovaNET, except for some database
corruption
> issues that seem to have been fixed in the latest version.  It's a good
> solution if you need to back up Windows or NetWare systems as well as
Linux.
> It's not free, however, so if all you need to do is back up Linux there
may
> be a cheaper solution.
>